Last weekend, volunteers from all over the country came to Long Beach, the Rockaways and Staten Island, to rebuild the Sandy-damaged homes of New York’s finest and bravest.
New York Says Thank …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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9/12/13
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Squads of muscled police officers in slate-colored jumpsuits crowded together on the sidewalk as we made our way up Stamboliiski Boulevard in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 23, two days after we touched down in the country’s capital.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/10/13
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Kids in Moore, Okla., the Midwest town recently ravaged by a twister, received a gift of hope from Long Beach this week.
Project 11561, a local group of volunteers, sent backpacks filled with …
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6/6/13
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Last Saturday, the City of Long Beach, KaBOOM!, JetBlue Airways and Surf for All teamed up to rebuild Magnolia Playground, which was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy. Hundreds of volunteers, both …
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5/23/13
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Every community needs police officers, teachers, sanitation workers and elected leaders. But every community also needs volunteers, the people whose contributions mean so much yet so often go unnoticed.
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4/25/13
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While their friends were at the beach, enjoying the warm weather, a group of teens from South Carolina were working on top of a roof on East Pine Street.
A youth group from Mt. Horeb United …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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4/11/13
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There has been a lot of progress made in the rebuilding efforts since Hurricane Sandy hit Long Island in late October, but there is still work to be done. The Long Island Volunteer Center is in need of volunteers to help those impacted by the storm.
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12/21/12
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The eight students and one teacher shuffled into the center of what was left of the dining room of a red-brick ranch home on a canal in Long Beach’s East End last Friday.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/20/12
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When the 26 students in Calhoun High School’s leadership class were batting around ideas for a community service project in November, they didn’t debate their cause –– they wanted to do something, anything, to aid those whose homes had been ravaged by Hurricane Sandy.
And when they went looking for possible projects, they thought immediately of Long Beach, which took the brunt of the storm, suffering an estimated $250 million in damage.
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By Scott Brinton
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12/19/12
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The stunning fall from grace of CIA Director David Petraeus surprised me, in a day and age when nothing surprises me.
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11/23/12
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